Fighting for quality news media in the digital age.

  1. Archive content
November 29, 2007updated 04 Dec 2007 9:06pm

Noted + quoted: Thursday 29 November 2007

By Peter Kirwan MM blog

Trinity Mirror buys Globespan property sites and mags
£4m revenue? That’ll be £0.9m upfront, plus £5m on earn-out
https://www.trinitymirror.com/tm_headline=trinity-mirror-expands-property-portfolio%26method=full%26objectid=20177433%26siteid=111046-name_page.html

Indy to revamp web site before Christmas
Still feeling a bit cautious about ABCE data, though.
https://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530806.php

AFP buys 30% of Paris-based citizen journalism site
Scooplive becomes Citizenside
https://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530805.php

Dennis Publishing sets up new product development unit
Ex-Maxim publisher gets 10 staff to launch five projects
https://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/29/digitalmedia.pressandpublishing?gusrc=rss&feed=media

Yahoo & Adobe launch search-powered PDF ads
Reed Business Information and Pearson run trials
https://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-adobe-yahoo-pair-up-for-pdf-ads-launch-beta/

New York Times plans admin redundancies
Bill Keller gives newsroom early Xmas present
https://gawker.com/news/merry-christmas%21/times-announces-newsroom-layoffs-327533.php

News Corp-LinkedIn deal rumours intensify
No smoke without fire: Bankers like it, but founder wants a “heckuva lot”
https://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/more-linkedinnews-corp-reports-coming-in/

Times & Sunday Times to cut back giveaways — a bit
Weaning Wapping off spiky, promiscuous readers
https://www.mad.co.uk/Main/News/Articlex/ea79bc3ccc02407faaa2b967e690f114/Times-Media-splits-opinions-as-it-moves-away-from-promotions.html

BBC Worldwide targets 18% revenue share for digital ads
15 portals to launch soon: gardening, motoring, parenting, environment and more. . .
https://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=mergersNews&storyID=2007-11-27T230831Z_01_L27456253_RTRIDST_0_BBC-INTERNET.XML&pageNumber=0&imageid=?=&sz=13&WTModLoc=InvArt-C1-ArticlePage3

Topics in this article : , ,

Email pged@pressgazette.co.uk to point out mistakes, provide story tips or send in a letter for publication on our "Letters Page" blog

Websites in our network